Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 130
twelfthcentury St. George became the patron saintof England. From the year 1222 onward,his feast day was regularly kept as a holiday.The dragon of St. George is a pagan myth,adopted and made over anew. St. George of England has a church dedi-cated to him in Rome (San Georgio de Vela-bro), and his… … Fig. 34.—Various forms of early standards andbanners. A =the labarum of the Emperor Con-stantine(A. d. 312). The monogram of Christ is atthe head of the staff, above the banner, and belowit is a serpent. B = the pennon of a knight of theMiddle Ages; it is a blue pennon with a silver chevron. C =a…
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